No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.